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Skriven 2006-05-16 12:24:48 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
  Kommentar till text 29655 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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 RW> Mark Twain, Henry James or any other late 19th century author, and
 RW> you
 RW> will see that people really did speak differently 150 years ago.

It can be realized in documentary flicks about historical events of the times
when journal notes, or letters to family, are narrated.


 PL>> I could't give a shit about actors personal lives.

 RW> I usually don't either, except when they use their fame as a pulpit
 RW> to
 RW> push their political views. Sheen isn't the worst of them, but he's
 RW> right
 RW> up there.

When it comes to actors or any other kind of celebrities I just don't care
who's zooming who, who's married to who, who's getting divorced, who's having a
baby, whole shoplifted, or whatever.

I will agree that trying to use their fame as a pulpit for pushing political
views in not on my list of most respectable of things to me. If they want to
push politics, let them run for office... other actors have.  When it all comes
down to it, I don't care about their political views.  Everybody's entitled to
them... God Bless America. I really don't even know what -his- political views
are, and I don't much care. To me he's an actor, not a politician.

 PL>> I only care about their on screen perforances, as that is what I pay
 PL>> to see.

 RW> There is far more to life than watching movies and people playing a
 RW> part
 RW> that screams of fairy tales.

That is far more to life than taking every little thing so seriously and
relating politics to every aspect of life.  That's call not smelling the roses.

 RW> Not unlike Lesley Neilson (sp), who was out of place as a serious
 RW> actor,
 RW> and had more fun while making parody movies. He got more respect
 RW> from me
 RW> in those roles than the former.

And I never liked a single thing Lesley Nielson was in. The parody flicks he
were in were just far too cornball to me.

 RW> I have a hard time finding anything worthwhile on the TV,

I watch very little "TV" these days.  If the tube is on more than 5 hours a
week for entertainment purposes anymore it's alot.  Only really goes on when
I'm watching DVD's that I choose to watch, or for the morning local news.

Most of the time when the tube -is- being used other than for movies or news,
it's stuck on the history channel or some other sort of documentary
stuff I may find of interest.


 RW>>> As for Harrison Ford, well, his best role was as the Captain of the
 RW>>> Millenium Falcon, in Star Wars. Next best, was as Bob Falfa, the
 RW>>> crazy

 PL>> I never considered him a "good actor"... just noted his part in the
 PL>> movie as a younger actor.

 RW> He proved otherwise as he matured from AG to Star Wars. The first
 RW> movie he
 RW> made in the Indiana Jones series was his best, the latter two he
 RW> slacked
 RW> off, IMO.

There were a few other movies he did... witness and mosquito coast... where I
enjoyed the movies overall, but didn't consider him really "outstanding". IMO
he was a mediocre actor who got lucky with a few sensationalized roles and he
got to make a few more movies because of them.  Not a -bad- actor, but not a
"good" actor... just an actor.

 RW> Did you know that he actually has a fear of snakes? That was no
 RW> act.

Yea... I remember seing that.  Think it was in the "making of" or sumpin... not
sure where I really saw that, but I remeber seeing that.

Goot run now... lunch time.

Phil

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